John Paul Mockenhaupt, 63, of Lincoln passed away Friday, January 9, 2015. Born August 4, 1951, to Walter and Virginia (Martin) Mockenhaupt. After graduating from Fairbury High School he went to work in the trucking industry for over 30 years, ending with Linweld of Waverly.

John is survived by his son Gregory Mockenhaupt (Alison) of Oakland, NE; daughters Tiffany Blackwell (Trent) of Lincoln, Cassey Hladik of Lincoln. John had four grandchildren, Connor, Alec, Riylen, and Ayla.

John was preceded in death by his parents and one brother. A celebration of John’s life will be at 10am Friday, January 16, 2015, at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, 6800 S. 14 St., Lincoln, with Pastor Ken McQueen officiating. Cremation, no visitation.

Corlyn K. Cerveny, a former rural Nebraska school teacher, homemaker, and wife of the late Joe Cerveny, a Fairbury city mail carrier for many years, passed away surrounded by her family on December 31 in Orlando, Florida, at the age of 82. Corlyn graduated from Reynolds High School in 1949 and survived polio, which struck her and took the life of her older sister, Wanda. She married Joe Cerveny in 1954 and they were wed for 53 years. Corlyn served as a Fairbury election volunteer for a number of years.

Allen C. Schenk, 93, passed away on January 3, 2015 at LifeCare Center in Longmont, CO. He was born to Harry and Alma Schenk on August 13, 1921 in Gladstone, NE. He graduated from Fairbury High School in 1940. After high school, he got a job with Beach Aircraft in Wichita, KS, where he met his future wife, Clarice R. Drost. They married on March 21, 1942 in Junction City, KS and to this union three children were born.

Allen served in the Army Air Force during World War II as a flight engineer on B-17 bombers. He became a master electrician after the war, and in 1946, he and his parents started a family business—Schenk’s Electric—in Fairbury, NE.